The Green Man - Brossura

Basford, Kathleen; Hardwick, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0859914976 ISBN 13: 9780859914970

Casa editrice: D.S.Brewer, 1978

Riassunto

The Green Man, the image of the foliate head or the head of a man sprouting leaves, is probably the most common of all motifs in medieval sculpture. Nevertheless, the significance of the image lay largely unregarded until Kathleen Basford published this book - the first monograph of the Green Man in any language -and thereby earned the lasting gratitude of scholars in many fields, from art history and folklore to current environmental studies. This book has opened up new avenues of research, not only into medieval man's understanding of nature, and into conceptions of death, rebirth and resurrection in the middle ages, but also into our concern today with ecology and our relationship with the green world. It is therefore a work of living scholarship and its publication in paperback will be greatly and justly welcomed.

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Recensione:

The rarest, most recondite and fascinating art book, which is a folklore and magic book as well... An incredibly thorough study, with every example illustrated, of the weird foliate heads or masks found in the medieval churches and cathedrals of Western Europe, with leaves sprouting from them. THE TIMES

Product Description:

126p large format black paperback, copiously illustrated in black and white, very good condition

Su questa edizione

• Editore: D.S.Brewer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0859914976
• ISBN 13: 9780859914970
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128